Pretoria – An East Rand father has described through his tears how he was hijacked by three armed men wearing Johannesburg metro police uniforms on Tuesday. They cuffed his hands behind his back and put a black plastic bag over his head and tied it behind his neck.

Frikkie Davel, 29, who is from Edenvale, said at 17:00 he was on his way home when the hijackers pulled him over in Henley Street in Brixton.

"They stopped in front of me and the driver and the front passenger got out and came walking up to me. A third person stayed in the back of the car."

The hijackers asked for his driving licence, ordered him to climb out of the vehicle, searched him and took his cellphone.

"I asked what I had done wrong and they said: 'We'll talk about that later'," said Davel.

The hijackers pushed Davel into the back of their car, pulled a black plastic bag over his head and tied it with a rope behind his head.

Luckily the bag wasn't tied too tightly so Davel was still able to breathe. They drove around with him for quite some time, with him lying with his head on the lap of one of the hijackers.

"I realised I was being hijacked and that I had to stay calm."

After a while, the hijackers stopped somewhere in the bushes, pulled Davel from the car and led him deeper into the bushes.

"They said I must lie down, and that's when I thought it's all over. I'll never see my baby (Xander, 8 months) again, I'll never see my wife (Ronelle, 25) ever again," Davel told through his tears.

The hijackers removed the cuffs, said he must stay on the ground and keep quiet, and walked away.

"After about 10 minutes, I tore the bag open and ran out of the bushes to the road."

He ran to a petrol station where he asked for help, but the cashier chased him away and said he's drunk.

At that stage he was in Victory Park in Johannesburg. After knocking on three houses' doors to get help, he realised the Linden police station was quite close so he started walking. When he arrived, they helped him immediately.